Patents Assigned to Diehl
  • Publication number: 20200369386
    Abstract: An announcement device or a passenger aircraft contains a memory or announcements with assigned potential flight phases and a control and evaluation unit with inputs for input signals with information relating to flight phases of the passenger aircraft, an output for the announcements, wherein the control and evaluation unit is configured to determine a current flight phase on the basis of the input signals, to check whether an announcement for the current flight phase is present in the memory, and to output this announcement as the current announcement at the output. A passenger aircraft contains the announcement device. In a method for outputting an announcement, announcements and input signals are provided, a current flight phase is automatically determined from the said input signals and a possibly present associated current announcement is output. A cabin management system of a passenger aircraft is used as an announcement device and/or to carry out the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: Diehl Aerospace GmbH
    Inventor: Lothar TRUNK
  • Patent number: 10845176
    Abstract: A munition module includes an ignition point of an explosive configuration positioned away from a detonator within a casing of the explosive configuration. In an initial state, an ignition channel runs from the detonator to the ignition point. The ignition channel is formed so as to be open in an initial state and self-sealing in an exploded state after a detonation has taken place. A warhead with the munition module contains an active covering which at least partially surrounds the explosive configuration and can be accelerated by the reacted explosive. In a munition having the warhead, the detonator is an impact detonator. A munition in the form of an air-burst munition contains the warhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Benjamin Schmitz
  • Patent number: 10837816
    Abstract: A method for operating a measuring device determining a fluid quantity relating to fluid or fluid flow uses a measuring tube receiving the fluid or conducting the flow and oscillation transducers spaced along the tube. A first flight time is recorded, then an ultrasound signal excited by a first transducer, after travel on a propagation path including only components of the measuring device to a second transducer, is recorded at a second transducer. A second flight time is recorded, then an ultrasound signal excited by the second transducer, after travel on the propagation path to the first transducer, is recorded at the first transducer. Then fulfillment of a report condition depending on a difference between flight times is checked. Upon fulfillment, a report is output to a user or a report message is sent to an external device or a correction parameter for determining the fluid quantity is adapted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Diehl Metering GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Mayle, Peter Ploss, Andreas Benkert
  • Patent number: 10837748
    Abstract: A device produces an arming criterion for a fuze for a partly spinning munition. The munition has a first part which spins and a second part without or with little spin during flight of the munition. The device includes a sensor for outputting a characteristic variable for a relative rotation between the first part and the second part and a control unit for producing the arming criterion when the characteristic variable fulfils a flying criterion. The fuze for the partly spinning munition, which has at least one arming criterion, includes the device for providing the arming criterion or one of the arming criteria. The partly spinning munition includes the fuze with the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Karl Kautzsch
  • Patent number: 10837851
    Abstract: A measurement device for ascertaining a pressure in a measurement volume which receives a fluid or through which fluid flows. The measurement volume is bounded at least sectionally by a side wall and a vibration transducer is arranged on the side wall. The vibration transducer is actuable by a control device of the measurement device to excite a wave that is guided through the side wall. The guided wave is able to be guided through the side wall along a propagation path back to the vibration transducer or to at least one further vibration transducer and it is captured there by the control device in order to ascertain measurement data. The pressure in the measurement volume is then ascertained by the control device in dependence on the measurement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Diehl Metering GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Ploss, Michael Mayle, Andreas Benkert, Michael Ponschab
  • Patent number: 10830620
    Abstract: An ultrasonic meter for recording a flow rate of a fluid includes a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet and a flow channel which connects the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet and includes a measuring tube extending in a straight line in a flow direction. The measuring tube has a plurality of projections formed on an inner wall of a side wall of the measuring tube for delimiting a flow cross section of the measuring tube. The projections extend over at least a section of the length of the measuring tube in the flow direction and extend with a predetermined projection height at an angle, in particular perpendicularly, to the side wall. At least two of the projections have mutually different projection heights and/or the flow channel includes at least one bypass for diverting a part of a fluid flowing through the flow channel past the measuring tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Diehl Metering GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Michael Sonnenberg
  • Patent number: 10826496
    Abstract: An operator control device has a control panel with a user side facing a user and an inner side facing away from the user. The control panel has an operator control element region. A rotary knob is positioned on the user side of the control panel in the region of the operator control element region and can be rotated about a rotational axis. The rotary knob is detachably attached to the control panel and has an encoder block with a code section which is at a distance, changing along the circumferential direction, from a lower end side, facing the control panel, of the rotary knob. An optical sensor is arranged on the inner side of the control panel in the region of the operator control element region and is configured to sense a distance between the optical sensor and the code section of the encoder block by electromagnetic radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG
    Inventors: Joachim Lyszus, Bruno Fuhge
  • Patent number: 10826675
    Abstract: A method operates a radio transmission system with a radio transmitter and a radio receiver. The radio transmitter has a transmitter timer and transmits a packet and/or a subpacket and/or a plurality of packets in succession for the transmission of data. A carrier frequency and the transmission times of the data and/or the carrier frequency and the sampling rate of the data and/or the transmission times of the data and the sampling rate of the data depend on the transmitter timer. The radio receiver has a receiver timer with time-measuring measures to define transmission times, carrier frequencies and/or sampling rates. The radio receiver estimates an error on the basis of the received data and determines a time error therefrom. A temporal correction factor for the compensation is defined on the basis of the time error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Diehl Metering Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Raphael Mzyk, Hristo Petkov, Thomas Kauppert, Klaus Gottschalk
  • Patent number: 10816097
    Abstract: A configuration for installation into a pipeline of a fluid network. The configuration has a connection housing with an inlet, an outlet, and a connection opening for connection of an exchangeable functional unit. The connection housing has a rotatably arranged core piece whose rotation makes it possible for the throughflow of the fluid through the connection housing to be blocked and/or released. The core piece has a receptacle for connection of the functional unit, and the receptacle and the connection opening are oriented in the same direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignees: Diehl Metering GmbH, Diehl Metering S.A.S.
    Inventors: Benjamin Ross, Jan Neidinger, Oliver Schlegel, Benjamin Fischer, Michael Schimetzki, Chinh-Duc Nguyen
  • Patent number: 10820070
    Abstract: Data are transmitted by radio between a terminal and a data collector. The data collector is intermittently or constantly in receive mode. The terminal attempts, from an idle phase, to set up a communication with the data collector in order to send all or some of the data to the data collector and/or to receive them from the data collector. Alternatively, the data collector attempts to set up a communication with the terminal in order to send all or some of the data to the terminal and/or to receive them from the terminal. The setup of the communication is followed by the terminal sending a message to the data collector and the data collector, after receiving the message, continuing, interrupting and/or terminating the transmission of the data during communication on a basis of the content of the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Diehl Metering Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Hristo Petkov, Thomas Lautenbacher, Thomas Kauppert, Raphael Mzyk
  • Patent number: 10805142
    Abstract: To optimally receive smart meter control messages transmitted by a concentrator, in a meter having a transceiver for bidirectional data interchange, despite its minimal resources, a current modulation reference frequency which is subject to drift is shifted by the instantaneous frequency difference between the current transmitter-side reference frequency and the current transceiver-side reference frequency in the concentrator. Therefore, the current reference frequencies correspond in the downlink without having to intervene in the meter. This frequency difference in the concentrator is obtained by comparing the current receiver-side demodulation reference frequency with the current transmitter-side reference frequency, and the current transceiver-side reference frequency, on the other hand, from messages from the transmitter of the concentrator and from the transceiver of the meter which are received using the receiver of the concentrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Diehl Metering Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Hristo Petkov, Thomas Lautenbacher, Thomas Kauppert, Klaus Gottschalk, Raphael Mzyk
  • Patent number: 10800656
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition for generating oxygen, comprising at least one oxygen source, and at least one ionic liquid comprising a cation and an anion, wherein the oxygen source is a peroxide compound, the ionic liquid is in the liquid state at least in a temperature range from ?10° C. to +50° C., and the anion is selected from metallate anions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Diehl Aviation Gilching GmbH
    Inventors: Fritz Kuehn, Florian J. Groche, Christoph Kallfass
  • Patent number: 10786942
    Abstract: A process produces a tubular hybrid molding made of a plastics foam element that exhibits temperature-dependent shrinkage and a fiber-plastics composite. The method includes inserting the plastics foam element, unhardened first and second fiber-plastics composite sections into a mold, where the plastics foam element has open pores at locations in contact with the fiber-plastics composite. The plastics foam element and the fiber-plastics composite sections are shaped by the mold. The mold is exposed to a first temperature to minimize the viscosity of the resin in the fiber-plastics composite. The mold is exposed to a second temperature to harden the fiber-plastics composite and to achieve mechanical fixing of the plastics foam element thereon. The mold is exposed to a third temperature to shrink the plastics foam element and cause its shape to conform to that of the mold and achieve a final shape of the said element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Diehl Aviation Laupheim GmbH
    Inventor: Dietmar Voelkle
  • Patent number: 10784852
    Abstract: A pulse generator has a galvanically isolated output, in particular for a consumption meter. A control output of a control unit of the pulse generator is coupled to an input of an opto-isolator of the pulse generator in order to output at the output of the opto-isolator an output current controlled by the control unit. The opto-isolator is connected to a field-effect transistor in such a way that the output current from the opto-isolator charges a capacitor via a rectifying component, which blocks the capacitor from discharging via the opto-isolator. The voltage drop across the capacitor is the gate voltage of the field-effect transistor. The field-effect transistor switches the output of the pulse generator directly or indirectly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Diehl Metering GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Nickl
  • Patent number: 10781577
    Abstract: An arrangement for installation in a fluid line network contains a fluid meter having a housing with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, and a volume measuring part. At least one connector, which is intended for connection to the housing of the fluid meter, is either equipped with an additional function or configured for the adaptation of an additional function on the connector. The connector has a connector inflow and a connector outflow. The fluid meter and the connector form a modular unit that can be installed in the fluid line network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: Diehl Metering GmbH, Diehl Metering S.A.S.
    Inventors: Benjamin Ross, Jan Neidinger, Oliver Schlegel, Benjamin Fischer, Michael Schimetzki, Chinh-Duc Nguyen
  • Patent number: 10783838
    Abstract: A display device (4) for an identifier (6a,b) of a seat (8a,b) of a vehicle (2) with a variable mounting location (10a,b) contains a display (12) along an extension direction (14), which can be attached to a carrier (16) of the vehicle (2) at the seat (8a,b) in the extension direction (14) along possible mounting locations (10a,b), and a control device (22) for displaying identifiers (6a,b) on the display (12) in different longitudinal positions (Pa,b), which are assigned to mounting locations (10a,b). A vehicle (2) having such a seat (8a,b) and a carrier (16) contains the display device (4), wherein the display (12) is attached to the carrier (16) in the surroundings (20) of the seat (8a,b) and extends in the extension direction (14) along possible mounting locations (10a,b) of the seat (8a,b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: DIEHL AEROSPACE GMBH
    Inventor: Stefan Mueller-Diveky
  • Patent number: 10775222
    Abstract: A measurement module determines a fluid quantity which relates to a property of a fluid located in or flowing through a measurement tube. The measurement module contains a base body, a control device and first and second oscillation transducers fastened at a distance from one another on the base body. The first and/or the second oscillation transducer is controlled by the control device to excite an oscillation of a side wall of the measurement tube when a contact face of the measurement module is coupled to the side wall of the measurement tube directly or via a coupling layer. The oscillation of the side wall excites compression oscillations of the fluid, which are conducted through the fluid to the respective other oscillation transducer and recorded the control device to determine a measurement quantity. The fluid quantity can be determined by the control device in dependence on the measurement quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Diehl Metering GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Ploss, Michael Mayle
  • Patent number: 10760879
    Abstract: A defense device for combating an unmanned aircraft includes a communications device configured for receiving communications information transmitted by at least one external signal source, an emitting device configured for producing and emitting a high-energy electromagnetic pulse in the event of triggering of the emitting device, and a control device configured to trigger the emission of the high-energy electromagnetic pulse depending on communications information received by the communications device. A protective configuration for combating an unmanned aircraft and a method for operating a protective configuration are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Robert Stark, Juergen Urban
  • Patent number: 10752130
    Abstract: A monitoring module (6) for a seat (10) of a passenger aircraft (2), which seat (10) contains at least one element (12 a-g) having at least two states (Z1,2), comprises at least one sensor (14a-g) for the element (12a-g), having state information (16) corresponding to the current state (Z1,2), a readout unit (18) having a communication channel (20) for the state information (16) to the sensor (14a-g) and a communication interface (22) for the state information (16) to a monitoring unit (8) of the passenger aircraft (2). The sensor (14a-g) is a camera or a capacitive seat occupancy sensor. A monitoring device (4) for a passenger aircraft (2) contains monitoring modules (6) and a monitoring unit (8), which is configured for at least two of the monitoring modules (6) together. A passenger aircraft (2) contains a monitoring module (6) and/or a monitoring device (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: DIEHL AEROSPACE GMBH
    Inventors: Dirk-Achim Schevardo, Lothar Trunk, Ehler Rager, Stefan Mueller-Diveky
  • Patent number: 10746503
    Abstract: A launcher device for launching ammunition or weapons provided with primers, contains a plurality of launch tubes combined so as to form a launcher battery. Each of the launch tubes is loaded with ammunition or a weapon, and each of the launch tubes is closed off by a cover. A device is provided for detecting damage to the covers closing off the launch tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Markus Bittner, Thomas Leidenberger